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Nexus X HumectressFrom 2014. By Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post All signs indicate that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to wage a protracted battle in the battered Gaza Strip as it seeks to crush the capabilities of the Islamist militant group Hamas. The ongoing conflict has already […]
By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security plans to ramp up social media tracking as part of an enhanced focus on domestic violent extremism. While the move is a response to weaknesses exposed by the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, it’s raising concerns […]
In the tradition of the Congress of Cultural Freedom.
This is a must-watch. This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli government on the accusation she was a “propagandist.” So Abby connected with a team of journalists in Gaza to produce the […]
Michael Lind really is one of the very best political analysts and social scientists out there today. Here, he thoroughly exposes both Biden and the Green New Deal as statist-capitalist, corporatist-plutocratic scams that will have a negligible impact on carbon emissions. By Michael Lind, Tablet The Biden administration’s […]
The future of conservativism will likely be something comparable to #walkaway in the center and something more like Le Penism on the right. The big question is to what degree rank and file conservatives will reject their neocon/Reaganite overlords. By Andrew Bacevich, The American Conservative In the grand […]
Russia Today A CNN news anchor has accused Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi of using an anti-Semitic slur during a live interview after the diplomat claimed that Israelis “control the media.” The interview began with Qureshi talking about a possible ceasefire between the Palestinian militant group Hamas […]
Max Stirner seems to have nailed it 175 years ago.
The most immediately obvious problem with this article is that it rests on the assumption that Hamas launches rocket attacks on Israel for no other reason that boredom or having nothing better to do. By Jonah Goldberg Structural racism means different things to different people. But here’s a […]
Critics of anarchism often argue, “But without the state we would have corporate feudalism!” apparently not recognizing that we already have corporate feudalism. By Oliver Milman, The Guardian Steven Donziger has been detained at home since August 2019, the result of a Kafkaesque legal battle stemming from his […]
Abby Martin is a pretty good source for information on Israel/Palestinian.
Russia Today Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has condemned the “blatant anti-white racism” of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and called for her resignation. The culture war bombshell triggered both Republicans and her fellow Democrats. “Mayor Lightfoot’s blatant anti-white racism is abhorrent. I call upon President Biden, Kamala Harris, and […]
By Samuel Allegri,Epoch Times The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is requiring that people in workplaces, businesses, and religious sites show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to be allowed maskless entry to the facilities. The state’s health authorities updated their masking guidance on May 19, following the Centers for […]
This is a pretty interesting blog by someone who seems to be making an honest effort to defend generally conservative and/or right-wing positions on empirical grounds. If you are on the right, you will probably find a lot of material here to fuel your own confirmation biases. If […]
This article makes an empirical case that the economy still isn’t that bad, although data from the post-covid period has been deliberately excluded by the author, and the statistics presented end in 2019. My initial impression of this author’s arguments is that he/she relies too strongly on the […]
By Federico Ferretti This paper discusses the relation between early anarchism and republican/nationalist ideas. We will focus on the case of British-based activists grouped around the journal Freedom and their engagement with Irish nationalism during the Age of the Empire. Freedom, founded in 1886, was the most important […]
Team Rising discusses a new Politico story on the evolving relationship between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Krystal Ball discusses the pay rises major CEOs received in 2020.
Max Alvarez, host of Working People Podcast, discusses Amazon’s alleged union busting tactics.
Journalist and author, Matt Taibbi, discusses how the media’s coverage of intelligence has changed in the past decade.
Saagar Enjeti reacts to CNN’s Oliver Darcy going after The New York Times for accepting ad dollars from Fox.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that WarnerMedia is planning to merge with Discovery.
Team Rising reacts to the falling ratings of cable news, specifically MSNBC.
Actress and activist, Susan Sarandon, and former presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson discuss the trial of Steven Donziger.
By Joel Kotkin, Unherd For many liberal Americans, the European Union is the perfect elite model: a non-elected, highly credentialed bureaucracy that embraces and seeks to enforce the environmental, social and cultural zeitgeist of the urban upper classes. It is, as the establishment Council on Foreign Relations puts […]
Interestingly, the Left and Right will likely do an about-face on this issue, with the Left defending the autonomy of business owners and the Right defending consumer rights.
By Jonathan Swan, Zachary Basu ,Axios Axios’ “Off the rails” series documents the end of the Trump administration, from election night 2020 through the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol. One important piece is only now beginning to emerge: Former President Donald Trump’s last-minute bid to pull U.S. […]
An overview of famous utopian/dystopian writings. By Toby Green, The Guardian Toby Green is the author of Thomas More’s Magician: A Novel Account of Utopia. The book tells the story of Vasco de Quiroga who, using Thomas More’s Utopia as his blueprint, forged a commune on Mexico City’s […]
“The welfare of the people will always be The alibi of tyrants. And it gives the added benefit of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.” –Albert Camus
I don’t disagree with the contents of this article, but it is hardly the case that education was unbiased before social justice crusaders took it over. Educational institutions used to teach the American civil religion. Now they teach the social justice religion, that’s all. By David Randall, Kevin […]
Political ideologies are the modern version of religions, and all of these groups want a sectarian theocracy of their own. Modern Americans/Westerners will ridicule the religious crusaders of the early modern period or today’s Middle East as unenlightened dolts, completely oblivious that they’re doing the same thing in […]
By Álvaro Girón and Jorge Molero-Mesa Recent memories of the 1888 Universal Exhibition could not conceal the poor living conditions and social strife that plagued the city’s working class in November 1889. That month Barcelona hosted the Segundo Certamen Social-ista (The Second Socialist Contest), a competition organized by […]
Over 40 progressive organizations, including the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and GLAAD, on Tuesday released an open letter urging media buyers not to buy advertisements on Fox News or risk damaging the reputation of their brands. “Fox News has already made clear what you can expect […]
This contains a pretty good overview of what would happen if Roe v. Wade were actually repealed. The majority of the states would still be “pro-choice.” By Jacob Sullum, Reason “They’re taking away fundamental rights,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) declared during a pro-choice rally outside the […]
Rose is interviewed by Jimmy Dore.
By Aleksa Burmazovic, Startup Societies Foundation January 23, 2018 Journey to the center of the Earth: Subterranean startup societies “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duell, 1899 “We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” – Bill Gates, 1989 Do these quotes […]
By Doug Bandow, The American Conservative To his credit, President Joe Biden decided to pull American troops out of Afghanistan by September. However, they aren’t out yet. And President Donald Trump’s struggle against his own staff and the military brass demonstrates the power of Washington, D.C.’s war lobby. […]
Saagar Enjeti and Colin Rogero react to New York AG’s office criminal investigation into the Trump Organization.
Author, Ryan Girdusky, explains why American Republicans should follow the lead of British conservatives.
January 6 was hilarious. But using it to drive a greater wedge between Red Tribe and Blue Tribe is excellent. Colin Rogero breaks down the GOP’s reaction to the January 6th riots at the Capitol.
Watch the system start blaming UFOs on the Russians and the Chinese. Saagar Enjeti reacts to the MSM’s newfound interest in UFOs.
JP Cortez, Sound Money Defense League The critical efforts of the Sound Money Defense League to protect and defend the interests of precious metals owners — and the public at large — continues to gain recognition as the organization racks up new policy victories once again in 2021. Principally […]
The social democrats in Congress aren’t my cup of tea at all but if they can throw a wrench in the US-Israel relationship, more power to them. Saagar Enjeti and Colin Rogero discuss the latest updates in the U.S. response to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
I’d say it depends on the particular regime. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Kim were the worst. Conventional fascists and parafascists (Mussolini, Franco, Salazar, Peron), Titoism, and revisionist communists less so. Though all of them still sucked. And let’s not forget the centuries-long myriad of crimes carried […]
By Gregory Shupak, FAIR Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality. Corporate media have […]
Excellent. The empire continues to fragment. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused President Joe Biden of “writing history with his bloody hands” after a report of a $735 million dollar weapons sale from the United States to Israel. Following a meeting with his Cabinet, Erdogan issued a rebuke […]
Excellent. This will have the effect of alienating MAGAs from the system to an even greater degree than they already are.
Excellent. Intra-party fragmentation is always welcome. “I want to say to you that I admire your intellect, I admire your passion, and I admire your concern for so many other people. And it’s from my heart,” Biden said later of Tlaib during his speech at the Dearborn Ford […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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